Kellyanne Conway, former campaign manager and counselor to President Donald Trump, predicted a woman would be part of the 2024 Republican presidential ticket to show that women can be better leaders than Vice President Kamala Harris.
Conway appeared on a segment with Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn called Unmuted with Marsha that the senator broadcasts on her social media to discuss the current state of women in government positions. She also discusses the Biden administration’s low poll numbers concerning inflation, the economy, and COVID-19.
“These are very serious times, and these are very weighty issues facing our nation,” Conway said.
The former Trump adviser noted Harris’s recent 28% approval rating in a USA Today/Suffolk University poll reflected the vice president’s inability to manage the country’s concerns effectively. Conway offered it as a reason for Republicans to choose a woman as part of the next GOP presidential ticket.
“I think if President Trump runs again in 2024 or whoever the [Republican] nominee is, it’s either going to be a woman if he decides not to run, or he’ll seriously consider selecting a woman as his running mate,” Conway said. “And not just a woman for woman’s sake because he’s never done that. A woman because he recognizes that we’re one-half of the country, more than one-half of the country, and more than one-half of the electorate, and we have to restore faith that women leaders in government can get the job done.”
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Blackburn asked Conway about Harris’s use of sexism and racism as defenses for underperforming in the polls. Conway said Harris was “chosen for her gender” and has since had the lowest approval rating “since pollsters have been tracking vice presidents [for] over 50 years.”
“When I hear her blame sexism and racism, I have a very easy response,” Conway said. “It’s called eyesight and hearing — not sexism and racism. People are hearing her, and they are watching what she is doing and, more importantly, what she is not doing.”
The Tennessee senator asked Conway what she would suggest to the Biden administration in light of low approval ratings on topics such as the economy and inflation overshadowing COVID-19.
“I believe the Biden administration and Democrats do not have a messaging problem,” Conway said. “I believe they have a fact problem. Their position on the issues is way out of touch and out of sync and out of step with what Americans are telling pollsters — Right, Left, and center, including in these media-sponsored polls — that they are expecting (more) from their government.”
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Conway noted that concerns voters have, as reflected in the polls, relate to necessities and that people are “getting hit by the Biden economy, the Biden-Harris inflationary numbers.”
“You’re getting hit every time you go to the grocery store, every time you are at the gas pump, every time you try to pay a bill, every time you see what is leftover in your paycheck,” Conway added. “So everywhere you turn, the economic indicators are very clear that this is literally a country that’s not working. It’s not working enough, and it’s not working well enough.”
